We filled our reward jar! "Pom-Pom Fred" is full!

Info: Week 5 (Oct. 5-9)

Reminders:
*We have begun our Enrichment Blocks in Reading and Math. This allows for smaller group differentiated instruction twice each day M-Th. We have also begun our Access time ELA rotations during our stamina time.  The students are off to a great start! 
*Agendas and Take-Home Folders need to go home and back each day. Also, please sign your child's agenda each day. Thanks!
*Weekly homework packets will go home on Monday and need to be completed and returned by Friday morning.
*Please write a note in their agenda if there is a change to their regular dismissal location. Front door is car pick-up and back door is walkers and Boys/Girls Club.
*Wednesday, Oct. 7 we will be walking to the Holland Farmer's Market. We will also be reading a story the following week about a farmer's market.

MATH
Lesson Topics: Represent Addition, Addition with Circle Drawings, Addition Equations and Addition Stories.

READING
Amazing Words: classmate, polite, recess, applaud, success, education, principal, science, complicated

Plot, Questioning- School Day

Adjectives

EBLI Lessons

SCIENCE
We will wrap up our topic of the EARTH in SPACE. We are learning about the Earth, Moon, & Sun, Reasons for Day & Night, Reasons for the Seasons, and Rotations & Revolutions. We will also begin our new topic on the Earth's Surface.  We will be learning about rocks, minerals, layers of Earth, earthquakes, volcanoes, and fast/slow changes to the Earth. 

Another fun Friday learning activity with our 5th grade buddies!

Week 4 (Sept. 28-Oct. 2)

Reminders:
*Wednesday, Sept. 30 is picture day.  Info is sent from the office. 
*We are beginning our Enrichment Blocks in Reading and Math the week of Sept. 28.  This will allow for small group differentiated instruction twice each day. 
*Agendas and Take-Home Folders need to go home and back each day. Also, please sign your child's agenda each day to help with consistency. 
*Weekly homework packets will go home on Monday and need to be completed and returned by Friday morning.
*Wednesday, Oct. 7 we will be walking to the Holland Farmer's Market.  A permission slip and request for a quarter (to buy an apple from a vendor) has been sent home already. We will also be reading a story the week of Oct. 12 about a farmer's market.

MATH
Partners of 10, Math Chapter 1 Review & Assessment: Partners and Number Patterns Through 10

READING
Amazing Words: amusing, neighbor, trouble, porch, introduce, corner, deliver, squirrel

Realism & Fantasy, Questioning- The Big Top

Simple Sentences

EBLI Lessons

SCIENCE
We have begin on our topic of the EARTH in SPACE.  We will learn about the Earth, Moon, & Sun, Reasons for Day & Night, Reasons for the Seasons, and Rotations & Revolutions.

Reading buddies Sept. 18

Reading Stamina

Here's a little video about the importance of reading at home, even at a young age!  :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqawFfXTPSs

Week 3 (Sept. 21-25)

Reminders 

9/21-9/24 there will be NWEA testing for about an hour each morning.  This data will be used to help create effective differentiated small groups in ELA and Math beginning next week. 
*Please send in only healthy morning snacks.  Please avoid juice because it can be messy. Thanks!
*Fliptop water bottles are great in the classroom.  Twist off tend to spill regularly.
*Signed Agendas and Take-Home Folders need to go home and back each day. 
*Weekly homework packets will go home on Monday (or the first day of the week if it happens to be a shortened one) and need to be completed and returned  by Friday morning (or the last day of the school week). 
*Please write a note in their agenda if there is a change to their regular dismissal location.  Front door is car pick-up and back door is walkers and Boys/Girls Club.


MATH
Partners of 7, Partners of 8, Partners of 9, Partners of 10

READING
Amazing Words: active, pavement, puddle, overflowing, lawn, newspaper, banner, patio

Plot, Story Structure- Tip and Tam

Verbs in Sentences

EBLI Lessons

SCIENCE
We will begin our first unit on the Earth and Sun in our Solar System. 

Our first thinking map of the year!

Week 2 (Sept. 14-18)

INFO for next week, Sept. 14-18

*Please have your children at school by 7:50 in the morning.  We begin instruction at 8:00.
*Heads Up on Testing...we will have 4 days of hour long tests (NWEA) to help place students for Enrichment Block groups. 
*Weekly Homework Packets will go home on Monday and are due by Friday morning.
*Please sign your child's agenda each evening. If there is a change to their normal dismissal location, please leave us a note. 
*If you'd like your child to have a morning snack, please send in a healthy snack each day. 
*RESPECT is our virtue of the month.  We have also created a social contract detailing our classroom expectations.  A photo of our contract was posted on the blog.
 

Have a wonderful week!!  :)

Reading
Amazing Words: adult, depend, gallery, scurry, childhood, portrait, entertain

Nouns for Places

Setting & Predictions: Snap!

EBLI Lessons

 

**Spelling will begin after the initial review unit. **

MATH
Partners of 2 Through 5

Partners of 6

Partners of 7

Our classroom social contract (created by the kids themselves)

First day fun!!

Week 1

INFO for the WEEK of SEPTEMBER 8-11 *We will be establishing and practicing many of our daily routines.  We will create classroom social contracts for positive learning communities.  We will also start off the bat practicing stamina with some independent work.  We will start off slow, and grow and grow!  :)
*Please take a few minutes to review our First Grade Handbook and any additional papers sent home.  Agendas will go home each evening for a parent signature.
*Please consider volunteering your time in our classroom.  A list of volunteer needs will be going home with your child.  Thank you! 
*If you would like your child to have a morning snack, please pack one daily.  Remember we are a peanut-free school. 
*If your child will be leaving out of the back parking lot (West) at the end of the day, please let us know.  Otherwise, we will plan on car pick-up in the front lot at 3:15. 
*Weekly homework packets will go home at the beginning of each week.  When completed, they may be turned in anytime by Friday morning. 
*Specials Classes take place daily 1:30-2:15.  Mondays- Art, Tuesdays- Gym, Wednesdays- Library, Thursdays- Computers, Fridays- Music. 

 Amazing Words: straw, furniture, yawn, unwind, tidy, middle, cozy

Math: Numbers 1-10, Visualize Numbers as a 5-Group and Ones, Patterns of 2-5

****We are excited about a GREAT year ahead!  Welcome to First Grade!****